What's the line between sexism and human psychological response? Pretty sure the male voice is what crosses the gender boundary as far as "authority." It's a question of sound frequencies, not genitals.

However, games have Glados and Cortana and Fem Shep, just to name a few. All characters that have represented their respective properties. But then, their authority is provided by their roles in the game worlds, so it might be a cheat around the existing harmonic bias.

So they had a female do the voice over, then added special effects to her voice. I'm not knowledgeable enough in the field to know specifics, but there sounded to be some reverb /echoing added to make her voice different.

Pretty much summed up for me why they don't get the parts...

"Ok, use her voice, then completely change it to make it something else.""Uh, boss, why don't we just find the right person?""But did you hear her? She did the squeaky voice!"

fozziewazzi:Contents Under Pressure: Sigourney Weaver has voiced some nature-type specials and her voice had the right blend of lightness and authority.

And Oprah was a disaster.

This. WTF is wrong with David Attenborough? I'm sure he didn't do any of the stupid anthropomorphizing she did. "Look how far the snail has had to crawl, he must be SO tired." Don't do that O, animals hate it.

Meh ... much is wrong with movie trailers. How about fixing some of these:

- Giving away the entire plot.- Showing the ending.- Showing scenes that are not in the theatrical release.- Putting all the funny parts in the trailer.- Putting all the badass stunts in the trailer.- Making the movie look like a different movie.- Using other movies' soundtracks.- Editing them all alike, ie 2 minutes of setup, 30 seconds of craziness, title card, tag.- Endless other clichés ...

The best promos for movies are done on pay cable networks where they give you a short scene. You get a sense of the characters, the pacing, cinematography, direction, etc, and leave you wanting to know that the movie is about.

So true. That and putting the movie's big reveal/twist in the trailer, like the first Pirates of the Caribbean or that recent(ish) Terminator movie. WTmotherFing hell are they thinking when they do that crap?

fusillade762:fozziewazzi: Contents Under Pressure: Sigourney Weaver has voiced some nature-type specials and her voice had the right blend of lightness and authority.

And Oprah was a disaster.

This. WTF is wrong with David Attenborough? I'm sure he didn't do any of the stupid anthropomorphizing she did. "Look how far the snail has had to crawl, he must be SO tired." Don't do that O, animals hate it.

Damn straight. Thank god Netflix has plenty of Attenburough to make up for that Oprah sillines.

(Holy crap, I just got a Blu-Ray player....I can finally get Life and Planet Earth for the wife.)

Homertron:Hmm....heard one time the voice of the computer on fighter planes were women's voices, because men listen to women or pay attention to a woman's voice more quickly. Could be complete BS however.

FunkOut:Homertron: Hmm....heard one time the voice of the computer on fighter planes were women's voices, because men listen to women or pay attention to a woman's voice more quickly. Could be complete BS however.

She was the DJ in The Warriors and the biatchy woman in Lean on Me (and the detective chief in the Carmen Sandiego kids game show). She has the right type of sultryness delivered from a position of power and authority.

Women who do trailers shouldn't try to do them like the guys, with the baritone n everything. They must find their own ways to be evocative, and there's all sorts of ways to do that without needing to channel Don Lafontaine.

Lernaeus:Meh ... much is wrong with movie trailers. How about fixing some of these:

- Giving away the entire plot.- Showing the ending.- Showing scenes that are not in the theatrical release.- Putting all the funny parts in the trailer.- Putting all the badass stunts in the trailer.- Making the movie look like a different movie.- Using other movies' soundtracks.- Editing them all alike, ie 2 minutes of setup, 30 seconds of craziness, title card, tag.- Endless other clichés ...

The best promos for movies are done on pay cable networks where they give you a short scene. You get a sense of the characters, the pacing, cinematography, direction, etc, and leave you wanting to know that the movie is about.

The worst is when you're watching a trailer and the character says some "witty" line that you KNOW they just put in the script so that it could be put in the trailer.